BLOOMINGTON, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reinforcing its commitment to advancing interventional techniques and technologies to treat disease, Cook Medical is pleased to announce a new contract with leading health care supply chain and contracting company Novation for Cook’s peripheral intervention and peripheral diagnostic devices. Cook peripheral vascular products under this contract will be offered to the more than 65,000 members and affiliates of VHA Inc., UHC, Children's Hospital Association and Provista, all served by Novation. The contract, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2013, will cover devices in Cook’s peripheral vascular intervention and diagnostics portfolio, which include access and biopsy needles, balloons, balloon stents, diagnostic wire guides and catheters, interventional wire guides, embolization coils, self-expanding stents and vena cava filters.